Group Stays & the Whole House
Details from the bed-and-breakfast era. These rates date from 2017 and are not current. Nothing here can be booked, and no price below is offered by anyone.
The 2017 rate card covered taking the third floor whole. It is the only complete price list available from the inn's two decades, and it shows exactly how a five-room house thought about groups.
The Gables Together
As the West Gable's page records, the inn's fifth room opened only to parties reserving both third-floor rooms — turning the attic story into a private floor for up to four guests, two queen beds under opposite gables, sharing the landing and bath arrangements between them. The group rate card priced precisely this:
The 2017 Rate Card, Transcribed
| Party | Rate (2017, + tax) |
|---|---|
| Four guests, two rooms | $160 |
| Three guests, two rooms | $150 |
| Two guests, two rooms | $140 |
Read it as a small masterclass in inn economics. The marginal guest cost ten dollars — breakfast, linens, hot water — while the floor itself cost $140 to claim empty-handed. A couple who wanted the attic to themselves paid for the privacy, not the headcount; four friends split the whole floor for forty dollars a head. The card made the West Gable's "closed unless" rule into a product instead of a restriction.
The Whole House
Beyond the Gables, the inn took Whole House reservations — all five rooms to one party, the configuration behind its wedding and anniversary trade and the strictest line in its cancellation policy. A 1907 mansion with a columned veranda, a library with a fireplace, parlors hung with local art, and beds for ten is a natural small-wedding venue, and Trinidad's festival calendar kept family reunions cycling through as well. Guests of those gatherings woke to the same single-table breakfast at eight, multiplied to fill the dining room — by most accounts the moment the house felt most like what the Tarabino brothers built it to be: one large home, shared.